Table of Contents

Foreword
1 Scope
  1.1 Normative references
  1.2 Abbreviations
2 Interface capabilities
3 Interface specification objectives
4 Interface characteristics
5 Other technical specifications on the BSC-BTS
  interface
  5.1 GSM 08.52 BSC-BTS Interface Principles
  5.2 GSM 08.54 BSC-BTS Layer 1 Specification
  5.3 GSM 08.56 BSC-BTS Layer 2 Specification
  5.4 GSM 08.58 BSC-BTS Layer 3 Specification
  5.5 GSM 12.21 BSC-BTS Operation/Maintenance Signalling
  5.6 GSM 08.60 Inband Control of Remote Transcoders
      and Rate Adaptors
  5.7 GSM 08.61 Inband Control of Remote Transcoders
      and Rate Adaptors for Half Rate Traffic Channels
History

Abstract

Gives an introduction to the 08.5x-08.6x series of GSM Technical Specifications and deals with the definition of the Base Station Controller (BSC) to Base Transceiver Station (BTS) interface defined inside the base station system (BSS) for the GSM system.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	SMG 3